The Brutalist Report - tech
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- Show HN: Interactive, animated architecture of any HuggingFace models [8d]
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- Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries [8d]
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- The 90-year history of the binoculars bolted to scenic overlooks [8d]
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- Terry A. Davis Quotes [8d]
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- The Microsoft Rebrand Registry [8d]
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- Programmable Property-Based Testing [8d]
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- Who owns the code? AI code == no author == no copyright [8d]
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- GPT-5.6 Sol: 70% off in Devin [8d]
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- AI usage patterns in software teams [8d]
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- GLM-5.3 Artificial Analysis Benchmarks [8d]
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- fx :Tiny, open, native coding agent. [8d]
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- A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome [8d]
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- Flock impersonates journalist in order to cancel his hotel reservations [8d]
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- Claude Code Teaching macOS to Natively Print to the HP Laser 1008a [8d]
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- Companies promote incompetent employees to management tolimit damage they can do [8d]
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- Find Chicago Parking Cops [8d]
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- Mythic's analog compute-in-memory architecture [8d]
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- Hister – private, self hosted search engine [8d]
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- Norway Should Buy OpenAI [8d]
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- Beware Management Consultants [8d]
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- llms.txt: a proposed standard no major AI platform has confirmed it uses [8d]
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- Show HN: Argus, agentic QA for teams whose coding agents move faster than QA [8d]
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- IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club Asia Pacific: Reflections [8d]
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- US announces new sanctions on top ICC figures [8d]
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- Could Four Billion People Die at 3°C? [8d]
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- Show HN: PantheonGPU – GPU health testing and AI workload benchmarking [8d]
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- Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities [8d]
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- How does IKEA come up with names for its products? [8d]
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- Turbovec – Google's TurboQuant for vector search in Rust [8d]
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- Columbia House, Mail-Order Media Company, Is Shuttering [8d]
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- Show HN: macOS data protection keychain for Electron apps [8d]
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- Data centers raise nearby temperatures by up to 4 degrees in Phoenix [8d]
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- And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway [8d]
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- Claude Code weekly limits reduce by a third tomorrow [8d]
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- Why your Amazon order confirmation emails have become so unhelpful [8d]
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- Diesel Margins Top $100 a Barrel to Reach Record High as Supply Crunch Grows [8d]
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- Sol Loves to Cheat [8d]
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- Claude: Degraded Performance for Multiple Models [8d]
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- Superpowers, Not Superintelligence [8d]
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- Git at any scale [8d]
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- Mojo is now open source [8d]
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- A local ePub eBook server for my xteink [8d]
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- Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union [8d]
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- I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers [8d]
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- Microgpt in pure C hits 10M tps on Apple m5 [8d]
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- What Happens If OpenAI Dies? [8d]
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- Show HN: Openleetcode – local LeetCode runner where tests live in the repo [8d]
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- One Oakland police officer made $490k in overtime [8d]
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- typ.ing [8d]
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- Finger: A Protocol from 1977 Is Still Delivering Malware in 2026 [8d]
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- Code-native generation of highly programmable 3D assets (2026) [8d]
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- I used to be excited about new tech, but I rarely am anymore [8d]
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- The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video] [8d]
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- JPEG XL converter and .jxl viewer [8d]
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- An Engineer's Old Cooking Trick Is Going Viral, Divides the Internet [8d]
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- Show HN: Shoehorn – Quantize any model down to run on your machine [8d]
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- Muse Glimmer is a memory hierarchy disguised as a 30B Transformer [8d]
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- Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk [8d]
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- Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book) [8d]
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- AI to help planes avoid climate-warming 'sky graffiti' [8d]
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- A group of Gandalfs protest outside the home of Peter Thiel in Argentina [8d]
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- NeoBrowser: An MCP server that drives real Chrome with your logged-in sessions [8d]
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- The Amazon Tax [8d]
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- Fixing a Bricked Framework Laptop [8d]
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- Show HN: I canceled my AI code reviewer and wrote a free local one [8d]
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- Kent Beck: Composable Tests [8d]
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- Show HN: A local MitM proxy to control TLS fingerprints [8d]
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- Deus Ex creator Warren Spector is retiring from game development [8d]
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- Things That Used to Be Normal and Are Now a Luxury [8d]
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- Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner [8d]
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- Fairphone is now officially available in the United States [8d]
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- Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People [8d]
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- Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows [8d]
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- Anthropic details two experiments showing how Claude can accelerate protein design and analytical chemistry, and says it plans an access program for scientists (Anthropic) [8d]
- Sources: OpenAI's Q2 revenue grew 18% QoQ to $6.7B, but its operating margin sank further; Anthropic more than doubled its revenue to $11.6B in the same period (Wall Street Journal) [8d]
- Z.ai's GLM-5.3 with max reasoning scores 60 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, on par with Kimi K3 but below Opus 5 at 63 and Fable 5 at 62 (@artificialanlys) [8d]
- Internal memo: ICE bars its employees from wearing Meta's AI glasses, saying they "could unintentionally capture, record, or transmit sensitive information" (New York Times) [8d]
- Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signs an executive order imposing new requirements on data center projects, including getting approval from local officials (Allan Smith/NBC News) [8d]
- In opening arguments, US state AGs said Meta intentionally sought to addict children to Facebook and Instagram in pursuit of profit; Meta rejected the claims (Reuters) [8d]
- Sam Altman says OpenAI's decision to pace its AI development was caused by a collection of research observations showing "various degrees of misalignment" (Alex Heath/Time) [8d]
- Sources: Anthropic has been preparing to give its co-founders shares with extra voting power to help insulate them from outside pressure, ahead of a planned IPO (The Information) [8d]
- The US SEC proposes exempting certain digital asset offerings from securities registration statements, with exemptions for offerings up to $5M and $75M (Bloomberg) [8d]
- VC funding in physical AI companies totaled $47.4B across 521 deals in H1, up 80% from H1 2025, and more than the $41.9B invested from 2022 to 2024 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News) [8d]
- OpenAI says it has made several changes to its safety practices following the Hugging Face breach and has paused two weeks of deployment-focused RL training (Ina Fried/Axios) [8d]
- Comcast is rolling out Wi-Fi motion sensing to its Xfinity gateways, a free opt-in feature that allows its routers to detect movement at home (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge) [8d]
- Sources: Anthropic's revolving credit facility is set to surpass its roughly $10B target as banks compete for roles on the company's upcoming IPO (Bloomberg) [8d]
- The EU says it "welcomes Apple's changes" and they follow a "close dialogue"; IAP fees are 26%, alt payment processing fees are 20%, and link-out fees are 15% (Bloomberg) [8d]
- Apple unveils new EU business terms from October 1, resolving disputes with the EU, including a new Core Technology Commission and App Store commission tiers (Apple) [8d]
- Harvey announces Harvey Tenet, its first in-house, proprietary model for legal work, trained on mock disputes and case files using a version of Kimi K3 (Melia Robinson/Business Insider) [8d]
- Francisco Partners plans to take patient engagement software company Weave Communications private for ~$650M; Weave went public at a ~$1.5B valuation in 2021 (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios) [8d]
- Meta ran ads for a nudify app featuring a porn video with a deepfake closely resembling a prominent US politician; Apple removed the app from the App Store (Wired) [8d]
- Palona, which uses AI agents to automate real-time workflows in brick-and-mortar businesses, raised a $20M Series A, following a $10M seed in 2025 (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE) [8d]
- Google quietly rolled out a new program to let verified political campaigns more easily bypass Gmail's spam filter, after years of complaints from the GOP (Shane Goldmacher/New York Times) [8d]
- Velaura AI, which is developing low-power chips for data centers and physical AI applications, like robotics, raised a $110M Series A at a $1B+ valuation (Prathik Jayaprakash/Reuters) [8d]
- As sweeping US crypto legislation stalls, the SEC and CFTC are moving to establish rules; the SEC is set to exempt certain token offerings from securities laws (Hannah Lang/Reuters) [8d]
- Q&A with Proton CEO Andy Yen on Proton's story, dislodging "a hundred million people" from Google, AI backlash, privacy, US politics, EU Chat Control, and more (Andy Greenberg/Wired) [8d]
- Klarna says CFO Niclas Neglén and CMO David Sandström plan to step down in early 2027, and lowers its full-year GMV guidance; KLAR falls 19%+ pre-market (Connor Hart/Wall Street Journal) [8d]
- Ubiquiti sued by Ukrainian families over claims its tech powered Russian battlefield drones [8d]
- Ukraine reveals new UAV equipped with 24 hours of flight time and a range of 2,000 kilometres — enough to reach Siberia and back [8d]
- 'When I heard the released demo, I was shocked, angered and in disbelief' — Quote of the day by Scarlett Johansson on GPT-4's infamous 'Sky' launch voice [8d]
- The US Marines have a new tactic to tackle drones — just shoot them down [8d]
- 'The attacks we found only scratch the surface of what is possible': Experts say so-called 'Proactive SIM' cards can hijack smartphones, IoT devices and even EV chargers [8d]
- North Face everyday backpacks are up to 33% off at Amazon — just in time for back to school season [8d]
- 'This technology turns every router into a potential means for surveillance': Report claims Wi-Fi devices could 'quietly identify' people with nearly 100% accuracy [8d]
- The iPad Air M4 hits its biggest discount yet since Apple's recent price hikes — save $100 at Amazon [8d]
- Cherokee Nation joins list of tribes banning data centers on tribal lands due to water, energy, noise, and cultural resource protection concerns — and all new projects require ‘early consultation’ [8d]
- I tried ChatGPT's new interactive quizzes on 5 subjects I thought I knew well — it quickly found the gaps in my knowledge [8d]
- Ex-British F1 engineers build a cheap 466-MPH kamikaze drone [8d]
- 'OUR BOYYYY IS BACK' — Star Wars Zero Company gets an explosive final trailer featuring another fan-favorite Clone Wars character [8d]
- I've used the Secretlab Atlas for two months — here's why the office chair's firm support beats the Titan Evo on sale right now [8d]
- NFL starts next month — here are 11 TV deals that I'd buy, including up to $1,600 off 4K, QLED and OLED TVs [8d]
- High memory prices continue to make PC upgrades expensive, but Corsair's Vengeance RGB DDR5-6000 RAM kit gets a rare discount [8d]
- Dell’s 15.6-inch 2K touchscreen laptop has plenty of power for work, college and multitasking and it's $500 off right now [8d]
- The reMarkable Paper Pro tablets are the closest we've ever felt to writing on real paper — and the color e-ink devices are now $100 off in Best Buy's 60th anniversary sale [8d]
- ‘It’s not about who can generate a homepage in 30 seconds’: Hostinger launches a new agentic AI Builder, helping businesses do more with AI [8d]
- Geekom reveals multiple mini-PCs may be infected with malware hidden in a network driver — but it's now down to you to fix your PC [8d]
- Amazon is back with another big sale on Garmin smartwatches — here are the 8 best deals I'd buy [8d]
- My iPhone keyboard was becoming infuriating for typing AI prompts— I changed these 3 settings, and ChatGPT is now much easier to use [8d]
- Marvel's Wolverine PS5 console and controllers pre-orders — live build-up ahead of tomorrow's stock drop [8d]
- Loan company breach sees nearly 750,000 users have financial info, SSNs leaked [8d]
- Microsoft is massively improving Windows 11's right-click menu — but it should have been like this from the start [8d]
- We're asking the wrong question about the cost of enterprise AI [8d]
- How to watch The Great ADHD Myth? online – it's FREE [8d]
- Russia charges teenager for listening to a banned song using a VPN [8d]
- GTA 6 fans can't contain their excitement over the sound of a trunk closing in new 'It Happens on PS5' ad — 'We’re so desperate for GTA 6 marketing that a trunk closing sound is exciting' [8d]
- 'You can pull from all the different time periods' — Galactic Racer devs outline how the upcoming game's 'post-war' Outer Rim setting lets it reflect every era of Star Wars [8d]
- The next camera race will be about understanding [8d]
- 'If they're not controlling it with their feet, then are they really playing the game properly?' — Star Wars: Galactic Racer dev recommends players go full Sebulba and play with their feet [8d]
- Gotta snap 'em all: Polaroid unveils limited edition Pokémon cameras and film, and I'm obsessed [8d]
- Millions of stolen records allegedly dumped online by mystery "Hatman" hacker — McDonalds, Vodafone and more see Microsoft Azure records stolen [8d]
- Spotify just unveiled a new tool that lets you Bridget Jones-ify your playlists with notes explaining your song choices — and I’m ready to spill [8d]
- This wearable patch will buzz your arm when it detects poisons, and it could one day save your life [8d]
- Nioh 3: Hell Rising is a masterful microcosm of everything that made the base game great [8d]
- 'You come to witness both the light and dark sides of your own reign': we chat to Team Ninja about Nioh 3: Hell Rising and all the changes it brings to 2026's best soulslike game [8d]
- Polaroid Put Pikachu on a $100 Camera Because Nostalgia Works [8d]
- Fairphone’s Repairable Smartphones Debut in the US With the 6 Plus [8d]
- England vs. Pakistan: How to Watch 1st Test Cricket Live From Anywhere [8d]
- Today’s NYT Connections Hints and Answers for Aug. 19, #1165 [8d]
- Today’s NYT Connections Hints and Answers for Aug. 19, #1165 [8d]
- Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 19, #899 [8d]
- ChatGPT Launches a Version of Its Model for Teens [8d]
- Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Aug. 19, #1887 [8d]
- This AnyCubic 3D Printer is Built for Multicolor Printing, and its Now $300 [8d]
- Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 19, #695 [8d]
- Gemini in Chrome Is Now Available for Android Users [8d]
- Hit the Trails With Over $300 Off This Rugged TST E-Bike at Walmart [8d]
- Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy Lead Xbox Game Pass’s August 2026 Second Batch [8d]
- Best Halloween Deals: Upgrade Your Spooky Decor Without Scaring Your Wallet [8d]
- Snag This Greenworks Electric Chainsaw for 40% Off and Tackle the Big Jobs With Ease [8d]
- My Favorite Power Strip Is Now Just $24 at Amazon [8d]
- These ‘Ready, Set, Play’ Deals Are So Good You’ll Have to Free Up Some Space on Your PS5 [8d]
- Win an Apple Watch – Round 3 of CNET’s Guessing Game Is Live Now [8d]
- Amazon Deals of the Day: Get the New Galaxy Watch 9 and an Amazon Gift Card for $50 Off [8d]
- You Can Watch One of the Biggest Shows on Paramount Plus for Free Right Now [8d]
- Walmart Deals of the Day: $170 Off a 4K Vizio TV Just in Time for Football Season [8d]
- Don’t Wait for iOS 27, Download iOS 26.6.1 Now for Over a Dozen Bug Fixes and Patches [8d]
- Get Creative With Elegoo 3D Printers While They’re Up to 32% Off This Back-to-School Season [8d]
- Hackers Tricked a Major Retailer’s AI Shopping Bot to Do Something It Was Never Supposed To [8d]
- Peacock Price Hike: Streamer Ups Cost of All Subscriptions [8d]
- The Robots Are Stumbling on Their Way to the Revolution [8d]
- The Humanoid Robot Revolution Is Missing Some Parts [8d]
- The Robots Are Stumbling on Their Way to the Revolution [8d]
- Shark’s Answer to the PencilWash Has an Extendable Wand to Clean Tight Spots [8d]
- UPerfect GR19BU Monitor Review: A Big Surprise for Gamers and Creators [8d]
- Firefox’s AI Window Gets New Features Meant to Help You Stay on Task and Organized [8d]
- Incogni Scrubs Your Data From Shady Sites, and It’s 58% Off With Our Exclusive Deal [8d]
- Firefox’s AI Window Gets New Features Meant to Help You Stay on Task and Organized [8d]
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